Raymond Jay Emrich ’38 *46

Ray died Sept. 7, 2005, at Kirkland Village in Bethlehem, Pa.

After preparing at East Denver (Colo.) High School, Ray majored in physics at Princeton. He graduated with honors and was elected to Sigma Xi in junior year. He was also on the freshman fencing team, the Princeton Pictorial board, and was president of Gateway Club in senior year.

After graduate work at Cambridge, he did antitank ballistics research during World War II at Princeton and received a presidential citation for his work. In 1948 he received a Ph.D. from Princeton and became a member of the physics department at Lehigh University, where he taught for 41 years, including 10 years as department chair, until his retirement. Thereafter, he taught and did research in Germay and in Siberia and Minsk in the USSr, and then taught at Istanbul Technical School in Turkey for a year. He also continued to work with Lehigh graduate students and enjoyed tutoring students at Broughel Junior High School for many years.

Ray is survived by Carolyn, his wife of 63 years; daughters Frederica Smith and Lynn Wagoner; a brother, Paul; and a sister, Lucille Reeder. The class extends its deep sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1938